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Oscar Nominee Catch-Up: “Ajami”

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Catch up on one of those foreign Oscar nominees you didn’t see.

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Jonathan Demme receives Coolidge Award, premiers “Neil Young Trunk Show”

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And the Coolidge Award goes to……Jonathan Demme.

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The 2009 Sundance Shorts @ the Coolidge

January 27, 2010

I highly suggest you catch the Sundance Shorts at the Coolidge while they’re still around. Here’s a clip of one of my favorites.

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A Single Man

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A Single Man is the smartest and most visually interesting thing in the theaters right now. Even the trailer, and trailers are all starting to look the same these days, is almost as good as the one for Contempt. The film moves slowly, sometimes redundantly, as it follows Colin Firth’s character George through a day [...]

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Herb and Dorothy (2008)

Herb and Dorothy movie poster December 24, 2009

I missed the short run the Kendall Landmark gave the 2008 documentary Herb and Dorothy a few months ago. Apparently, I also missed it on PBS’s Independent Lens, but we all know how hard it is to keep up with PBS’s schedule. I was finally just able to see it on video. The film follows [...]

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Some More IN-FOR-MA-TION on AMC’s Prisoner Remake

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When watching The Prisoner remake on AMC, it was hard to not think about how much better the McGoohan series is, because the remake did everything it could to remind you of the original. Not only are there countless visual references (I picked out a few while watching, see bottom of post) but plots were [...]

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Prisoner No. 2: AMC’s The Prisoner

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I’m afraid of being hypocritical here, because I am the guy who shakes his head when he opens up the Globe‘s Arts section and finds that half of it is about TV. But, I just couldn’t resist putting down some anticipatory thoughts (concerns?) on the AMC/ITV miniseries remake of the Patrick McGoohan classic The Prisoner, [...]

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